Chap. 206.—An ACT toamend and re-enact an act approved February 11, 1896, enti-
thed * An Act to amend and re-enact section S12 of the code of Virginia, 1887, in
regard to the superintendent of the poor of Lee county,’’ so as to include
Hanover county.

Approved February 2, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
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eighty-seven, in regard to the superintendent of the poor of Lee county,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ $12. When and how officers qualify.—Every county and district
officer elected by the people, every city officer mentioned in section
eivhtv-ecight, and every county surveyor and superintendent of the poor,
appointed for a term, shall on or before the first day of July next
succeeding his election or appointment (provided that the superintendent
of the poor of Lee county and the superintendent of the poor of Hanover
county shall enter upon the duties of their respective offices on the first
day of January succeeding their appointment respectively and shall hold
their said offices for the term of four years, as now provided by law), qual-
ifv by taking the oath prescribed by section one hundred and sixty-
eight, and the oath prescribed by section one hundred and sixty-nine
or section one hundred and seventy, as may be proper, and give the
bond, if any, required by law before the county, or corporation, or hust-
ings court of the county or corporation for which he 1s elected or ap-
pointed, or for the district for which he is elected, or before the judge of the
circuit, county, corporation or hustings court of said county or corpora-
tion, in vacation. When the officer qualifies and gives the bond
before a judge in vacation, the judge shall certify the fact and the bond and
certificate shall be returned to the clerk of the said county, or corporation,
or hustings court, and the certificate shall be entered by him in the order
book of the said court on the law side thereof, and such bond, and also
any bond given before the court shall be recorded by the clerk: provided,
the clerk of the chancery court of the city of Richmond, may qualify
and give bond before the said court, or if he qualify and give bond _ be-
fore a judge in vacation, as hereinbefore provided, his bond and certifi-
cate of qualification shall be returned to and recorded in the said court.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.